Legal Opinion
Harris v. Young
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided July 3, 1991No. 17237PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SABERS, Justice.
Indian mother living on reservation with her three children challenges the subject matter jurisdiction of state circuit court to modify the child custody provisions of a Wyoming divorce decree.
Facts
Young (mother) and Harris (father) were divorced by a Wyoming state court in 1981. Mother is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (tribe). Father is not an enrolled member of tribe and is apparently non-Indian.
The Wyoming divorce decree gave mother custody of the couple’s three daughters: Bernice (b. 1974), Misty (b. 1976) and Sabrina (b. 1978). Prior to the divorce,…
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